Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic

by Eeckhout, Bart; Ragg, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780230535848
• ISBN10: 0230535844
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In a unique collection of essays devoted to one of America's most significant twentieth-century poets, a group of international contributors considers the Transatlantic nature of Stevens' poetry, providing original accounts of how a poet wary of 'influence' created a poetics which continues to haunt contermporary verse.

Author Biography

BART EECKHOUT is Associate Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is the author of Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing, a translator of Stevens into Dutch and a board member of The Wallace Stevens Journal.

EDWARD RAGG completed his doctoral thesis on Stevens at Cambridge University in 2005 and is Visiting Lecturer at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is completing a book entitled The Question of Abstraction: Wallace Stevens' Poetry and Prose and has published poetry in international journals.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Introduction: The Lights of Norway and All That	p. 1
Descriptions without Place: Ideas of Europe in Stevens	p. 11
'The Switzerland of the Mind': Stevens' Invention of Europe	p. 13
Stevens in Connecticut (and Denmark)	p. 23
Stevens' Europe: Delicate Clinkings and Total Grandeur	p. 41
Beyond Staten Island: Stevens in Transatlantic Conversation	p. 59
Philosophical Conversations	p. 59
Stevens and the Crisis of European Philosophy	p. 61
'Without human meaning': Stevens, Heidegger and the Foreignness of Poetry	p. 79
Early Christianity in Late Stevens	p. 95
'The strange unlike': Stevens' Poetics of Resemblance	p. 107
Artistic Conversations	p. 119
Stevens, Duchamp and the American 'ism', 1915-1919	p. 121
Picasso, Cezanne and Stevens' Abstract Engagements	p. 133
Music and the Vocal Poetics of Stevens and Valery	p. 151
Getting It Straight at the Sorbonne? Stevens' Afterlife in Europe	p. 163
Nicholas Moore, Stevens and the Fortune Press	p. 165
A Ghost Never Exorcized: Stevens in the Poetry of Charles Tomlinson	p. 186
A Poetics of Ignorance: Antonio Ramos Rosa and Wallace Stevens	p. 204
Reading Stevens in Italian	p. 216
Coda: Ode to a Colossal Sun	p. 231
Index	p. 237
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